Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · _intake0.951

   > and the YDB event happened and those people were gone. They never came back into the valley. It looks like it >> killed all of the mammoths and looks like it killed all the people because

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2. 02 · yt0.810

   Vance Hayes who we've already quoted in a previous episode in 1966 uh along with Peter Maringer Maringer of the University of Arizona discovered the site while extending the mapping of the area of the Laner Mammoth Kill site 19 km to the south. Yeah, we visited that one as well. Um the archaeologists located two concentrations of mammoth bones that day. They were convinced the area was a Clovis site based on the bones and because Murray Springs shared the same geological characteristics as the Laner site. Funding by the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society enabled ex…

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3. 03 · yt0.789

   But >> wonder what caused that one. >> Yeah. If the Native Americans did it, get this. >> Every man, woman, and child in a tribe would have had to have killed 10 mammoths a day for their entire lives from the time they were born to the time they died. >> Just doesn't make sense. >> And then go in and get the last cave bear. >> That's right. >> Who goes in at the very last cave bear while there's still a squirrel out there? >> Yeah, that's right. >> Yeah. and and giant sloths and giant armadillos and beavers. >> Yeah, armadillos and ar…

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4. 04 · yt0.786

   It's entitled the Murray Springs Clovis site placed the scene extinction in the question of extraterrestrial impact. Uh and that was in 2010 maybe as a response to this because uh I have it right here. I have quotes from it and this is interesting. Okay, so here's the Murray Spring Clovis site place to see extinction uh etc. And uh what did they find there? Um it says uh the Clovis occupation surface at Murray Springs is a sharp stratographic contact upon which rests black organic clay the black mat. Okay, it's I mean I've been there, seen it. It's very prominent, very distinct. You can see it…

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5. 05 · yt0.784

   They go on to say that our opinion is that Martin Martin's long-standing hypothesis, and Martin is referring to Paul Martin, who was the primary proponent of the idea that the overkill idea, that human hunters were responsible for decimating the great megafauna. And presumably the way his model is is set up is that they hunted the mammoths down to extinction. Once the mammoths were gone, they were they were key herbivores in maintaining the stability of the system. So once they were gone, it had repercussions all the way down through the through the the the the hierarchy that led to, you know,…

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6. 06 · yt0.783

   the belief that death isn't the end, that the dead remain connected to the living in some way that matters enough to justify time and effort in ritual. But then around 12,900 years ago, disaster struck, the younger Dus, a sudden catastrophic return to near ice age conditions that lasted over a thousand years. Nobody's entirely sure what caused it. The most likely explanation involves melting glaciers disrupting ocean currents. But the effect was unmistakable. Within a few decades, temperatures plummeted. Rainfall decreased dramatically. The forests retreated. The grasslands withered. The abund…

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7. 07 · yt0.777

   The megaporna they depended on are dying from the fires, the climate shift, and the sudden loss of food plants. Their sophisticated hunting culture so perfectly adapted to late ice age conditions becomes useless in a matter of years. The hypothesis offered an explanation for one of the most puzzling archaeological mysteries in North American prehistory. Why did Clovis culture disappear so suddenly? Why do we stop finding their distinctive spear points right at the younger dus boundary? Traditional explanations suggested gradual cultural evolution or climate adaptation. But the archaeological r…

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8. 08 · yt0.776

   I haven't looked at the latest, but um yeah, there was like three or four times more elephants, you know, 150, 200 years ago. Um were there as many mammoths? I think it's very possible, you know, I've seen some estimates that there might have been 10 million woolly mammoths worldwide. Um, and I've also seen some estimates that the human population during this time during the late plea scene between 5 and 10 million people. And that seems to me to be a major problem with the the the overkill hypothesis that human hunters cause the the the great extinctions at the end of the ice age. Of course, …

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9. 09 · yt0.776

   >> So if the torid theory is correct then it stands to reason that it has happened in the past and who knows the severity of those kind of things. Um there are specs of evidence here and there. Um the comet research group has published a paper uh on a few impacts that happened between 30 and 50,000 years ago. So have you heard about John Reeves and the boneyard in Alaska? The comet research group studied a boneyard deposit in Siberia and they were finding uh impact sparials within the skulls of these animals. And I don't know if you know the story of how George Howard became the cosmic t…

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10. 10 · yt0.776

    Because the implication of the Firestone at Alaper is that it's largely going to be at least probably to a great extent explained the younger dus explained by the impact of objects into an ice sheet into an icy environment. Now that was in then just jumping ahead to 2007. Um the most famous paper was preceded by this one when they discovered micrometeorite impacts in bingi and mammoth tusks in the bison skull. And there's a lot about this on George Howard's uh cosmic tusk website. So I don't think we need to uh dive into that here. I think we'll skip past that and get right to the like it says…

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